I am very excited to announce the addition of Section 401: Strategies to the RapidWeaver Classroom Curriculum! Two brand new series of tutorials -- Google Analytics and Effective Design Principles -- accompany this new section, and the SEO series has been moved to this section as well.

This new section has been named “Strategies” because its content discusses how we can be strategic in the development of our websites, in order to make them successful in accomplishing our goals. A variety of different topics will be covered in this section, many of which will extend beyond the “RapidWeaver world”.

As of May 2012, RapidWeaver Classroom has been providing training to RapidWeaver for 4 years! The primary focus has been instruction on how to use the software and its add-ons, but with Strategies, the focus will shift to how we can effectively use the tools that we have. For example, the Google Analytics tutorial “Creating Goals” demonstrates how to use FormLoom 2 and/or PayLoom 2 to track the success of a goal created in Google Analytics.

I think this is an important shift in focus for RapidWeaver Classroom, and while I will certainly continue to create new content covering RapidWeaver add-ons, there will be a lot of future additions to the Strategies section.